“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.”
Sounds of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel
The words of the prophets are also written on the synagogue walls. Today I was shooting a video project in New York City and on a brief lunch/walk break I took this photo of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, on the Upper West Side near Central Park. The inscription on the building reads:
DO JUSTLY, LOVE MERCY, AND WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD
(From the book of Micah, and what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the “magna carta of prophetic religion.”)
According to their website the building’s style ”follows the Romanesque of the 11th and 12th centuries.” It was designed by architect Charles B. Meyers and built in 1930. And the name Rodeph Sholom, is Hebrew for “pursuer of peace.”
Shalom–
